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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by geodel on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:18PM (#45752492)
All great points. I have seen in company of smart people CIO/CTO would freely up admit "Look we know cloud may not be cheap or easier to manage but this is the direction we have taken since we are getting out of owning or managing hardware/datacenter"

So it is not like one can dazzle decision makers with any logic or hard data. They are just announcing the decision while calling it a robust discussion over pros and cons of on-prem vs cloud placement.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by jmaker on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @04:53PM (#45752867)
Yep. I’ve also seen managerial people worship AWS sales reps as oracles, misconstruing ordinary sales meetings with them as something divine, in which they would disclose a lot of company’s IP in awe for them, just to listen to some blabbing superficial truisms. I mean, ChatGPT could tell you more. To add insult to that, the managerial people wouldn’t listen to their own senior, staff, principal engineers, and prefer to follow what the AWS reps told them.

It’s really disturbing how the human factor controls decision making in corporations.

For my peace of mind, I chose a sane path - if the company as an entity decides to do AWS, I will do my best to meet its goals. I’ve got all Professional and Specialty certs. It’s the human nature. No purpose in tilting at windmills.

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Re:AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questio... by geodel on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @11:02PM (#45755977)
> For my peace of mind, I chose a sane path - if the company as an entity decides to do AWS, I will do my best to meet its goals...

Amen to that.

Any kind of performance improvement, monitoring work I did for my applications has met with indifference or derision from managers. Because only if I had put efforts in cloud migration we could be "Horizontal Pod Scaling" for performance and fully managed Datadog console for monitoring the services.

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